Ishmael's Corner

APRIL 28, 2015

Since Craigslist eviscerated the classified ads business in newspapers, journalists have been writing the “poor me” story. At some point, it became fashionable for these “poor me” stories to blame the PR industry for journalism’s shrinking job pool. The best non-fiction storytelling on the planet comes from journalists.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 30, 2018

No matter where your company is in its relationship with employees, service providers or clients, The Muse has relevant content. Does your company have a stake in the current opioid crisis? Authentic Storytelling Project. Not strictly PR, but that’s one of the reasons we like it. And, one of the best things about The Muse?

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Solo PR Pro

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I was that first grader who wanted to start up a class newspaper,” he jokes when describing himself. After college, Doug was a typical journalism nomad, working in newsrooms in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. Doug started freelancing for NPR in 1979 when he entered college at the University of California, Berkeley.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Like many in PR, advertising, and journalism, I was relieved when Google and Facebook announced they would ban “fake news” sites from using use their ad services. Post-factual “news” isn’t merely annoying or even just a threat to journalism – it’s a magnet for the mentally unstable.

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

We’ve watched traditional media such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television decrease in importance thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and other social platforms. Tech companies have made huge financial bets on all of these innovations. Artificial intelligence also has the potential to revolutionize journalism.

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Ishmael's Corner

DECEMBER 14, 2014

A post scheduled for next week calls it the best daily newspaper in the country. This type of talent is often transient with companies doing this to retain flexibility. That’s not even a quarter of the company. Twelve employees left the company. Such volatility is particularly pronounced in small companies.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. c) More companies create their own content and channels to reach audiences instead of traditional media channels. d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

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PRSay

AUGUST 14, 2019

Shaw oversees the narrative and reputation of one of America’s most ubiquitous companies. . He also has to make sure the company’s staff of 130,000 is ready for change, too. You have a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. We ran a base newspaper. There was a radio station. It starts with consistency.

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

What was behind your decision to switch from journalism to PR? How will your background in journalism help you in this new position? As of right now, in terms of market capitalization, Apple is literally the largest company in the entire world. I’m a big film buff; and talk about a good storyteller. We’re numb to it.

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David PR Group

OCTOBER 9, 2014

One of the first things I learned in journalism school, and later honed in my PR career, was the concept of knowing one’s audience. For example, when writing for the general “newspaper-reading” public, you need to make sure your text is crafted at no more than an eleventh-grade reading level.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Earned media still the most credible source of info Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. Their study was published in the Journal of Promotion Management and summarized in a piece for the Institute for Public Relations ( IPR ). Try our services. Give our services a try.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

Newspapers are cutting staff. Paul Business Journal). You know you have skills but you don’t know how they will translate outside of journalism. The journalism world is much more fast-paced. Teaching people on the PR side about the journalism side. I know, I know, I’m not breaking news here.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The internet itself has been disintermediated by huge companies, notably Google and Meta. These companies have a stranglehold on advertising and have effectively become a tax on small and medium-sized business. The Institute of Development Studies has published best practice guidelines for inclusive storytelling.

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

I was captivated by the idea of people getting paid to tell a company’s story. I thought to myself: “Everything we do is storytelling!” I joined the journalism classes writing news articles for the college news website and began studying public relations for my degree. I was studying acting at the time.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Gannett recently “downsized” 350 jobs and the Wall Street Journal laid off 48 (although to be fair, the Washington Post – with 750 newsroom positions – is adding dozens of journalists ). Mike recognizes that newspapers that pulled away from their daily print publishing were hurt by it. And do you read books? Please weigh in!

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2015

In 2015, traditional media companies are expected to continue shifting towards rebranding, new media entrepreneurism, native advertising and the adoption of digital newsrooms. But how can PR pros take more mundane company news and get it into a local or national news story? Q: What’s the biggest thing you need from PR pros?

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Flatiron Communications

JULY 5, 2022

Most of the fledgling companies I MC’d on the Impact Startup stage were anything but vaporware. Few could find fault with how passionate and committed these founders were to their fledgling companies. I gravitated to the Centre Stage, but checked out the PandaConf (ad/marketing), and FourthEstate (media/journalism) stages.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 23, 2019

The first approach yields a timeline of newspaper articles, which you can piece together to create a full story. Aggregation is an old practice in journalism, and digital transformation has only encouraged it. The goal is the same, whether you’re a brand selling a product or a digital media company commodifying attention.

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Maxim Behar

MARCH 6, 2022

And then when I came back, I started Standard Daily as one of the first, if not the first private newspapers in Bulgaria, in my native country Bulgaria where I live. Remember what Winston Churchill said a long time ago that you can achieve a lot of things with journalism, but you must know when to quit. I was a great risk.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

You’ll need to speak their language to recruit them, and veteran newspaper reporters don’t necessarily know what “ map against your KPIs ” means. Most writers at media companies simply use the CMS as a place to paste in their writing. Content marketers never make content for content’s sake. ” Why?

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Way before newspapers, the Romans and Greeks used scrolls, Egyptians used papyrus, and ancient China used a form of paper to distribute information, even if that information was limited to an inner circle of elites or an educated few in those cases. China is credited with starting the world's first newspaper.

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Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

While some still struggle with multimedia, there are people who would rather just write or take photos, there’s no question that journalism will become an even more visual industry in the future, especially when print eventually disappears, he says. Many of those images show up in magazines, newspapers and blogs, she says.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Much of the modern public relations business grew up out of media relations and publicity, rooted in storytelling and editorial engagement. If you read an article about an individual or organisation in your favourite magazine or newspaper you’re likely to view it far more favourably than if you heard the information direct.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

Melissa Thibodo is the whole package – she is incredibly bright with PR strategy, she is among our top student writers and editors in the journalism school, she has unparalleled relationship building skills, and she has a strong foundation of real-world experience. (written by Tiffany Gallicano) . Karie Mooney, @karies_korner.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Started in 2005 as “The Wall Street Journal this Morning,” and nearly shuttered amid a reorganization in 2014, the show got a second life with an acquisition by Compass Media Networks. It’s not uncommon to hear the host, Gordon Deal unabashedly endorse the razor company sponsoring the show. This Morning with Gordon Deal. (~30

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